Re: I need some help with gs

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
: Peter Julseth <pjulseth@netins.net> wrote:

: >I have a IIgs with an applied engineering 2 mg hard drive installed and
: >am having problems that the loaded programs in the hard drive icon are
: >not recognized.  Can I erase the whole hard drive and reinstall the
: >programs that  I have printshop and appleworks 3.0  these work just fine
: >for me  or do I need other programs to help the hard drive to recognized
: >the programs loaded in that icon

: I assume you mean a 20MB Vulcan, not a 2MB one.  ;-)

: You can probably do this safely, but make sure you have a set
: of System 6.0.1 disks to reinstall the OS and make sure you
: copy the Vulcan driver from the drivers folder of your system
: disk.

: If I remember correctly, you have to put the Vulcan driver
: on one of the System 6.0.1 disks so that it gets installed.
: Can anyone here on csa2 provide the particulars?  Thanks.

I have here a Vulcan IIgs manual, as I used to have a 20Mb Vulcan.

The manual implies that the Vulcan driver (*/System/Drivers/VULCAN) is not
actually required to use the Vulcan drive, but that the driver improves
the Vulcan's performance under GS/OS.

Today, my 20Mb Vulcan drive lives in my //e (I swapped interface cards
with a Vulcan-20 owner who had a IIgs), and runs Prodos-8 with no special
drivers.

Look for a directory containing the Vulcan utilities:  BACKUP.II,
PART.MANAGER, and PARK.HEADS.  Copy those to a floppy; also copy off the
GS/OS driver.  PART.MANAGER contains utilities for formatting and
partitioning the disk (Vulcan 20 < 32Mb, so why partition unless you are
using it with DOS 3.3?).  Those utilities are worth keeping; then you can
reformat the disk using a ProDOS or GS/OS format utility, and reinstall
everything.  I think DOS 3.3 needs to be patched to see the Vulcan, but
ProDOS can find it unaided.

I seem to recall reading someplace that the Vulcan driver offered little
or no benefit under GS/OS 6.0.1 (but is beneficial under 5.0x), but I
won't swear to that.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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